Cleaning compound



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM E. CLARKE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CLEANING COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,621, dated December 4, 1883. Application filed August 18, 1883. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.- ounces of alcohol, one-eighth of an ounce of Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. CLARKE, salts'oftartarfie-eighth of an ounce of oil a citizen of the United States of America, of cloves, one ounce of pulverized borax, oneresiding at St. Louis, in the county of St. sixth of a dram of ammonia saltgand one gal- 3 5 5 Louis and State of Missouri, have invented 'lonofdeedoriz'edbrrefinedgasoline.

certain new and useful Improvements in Clean- The above-named ingredients are thoroughly ing Compounds; and I do hereby declare the mixed,and are applied the same as other analofollowing to be a full, clear, and exact descripgous cleansing compositions.

tion of the invention, such as will enable oth- One way of using the composition is to pour 4o ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to the same upon a rag or sponge and rub the make and use the same. article to be cleaned with the aforesaid rag or This invention relates to certain new and sponge.

usefulimprovements in compounds for remov- This improved composition may be used ing stains, either from fabrics, furniture, laces, upon the finest fabrics, and will not affect their 4 5 feathers, kid gloves, and all such articles or color or injure the same.

materials as will be injured by water; and it Having thus described my invention, whatI is intended for cleaning such articles It also claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters removes grease from the aforesaid materials, Patent, is

and it is designed more especially as an im- The herein-described cleansing compound, 2'0 provement upon Letters Patent dated May 2, consisting of sulphuric ether, alcohol, salts of 1882, and numbered 257,381. t rtar, oil of cloves, pulverized borax, ammo- In my composition I employ several of the ma salts, and deodorized gasoline,in about the ingredients named in said Letters Patent, but proportions herein specified, and for the purwith the addition of other engredients and in poses set forth.

25 different proportions. I also dispense with In testimony whereof I affix my signature in some of the ingredients named in said patent, presence of two witnesses. and by doing so produce a compound which is more effective and cheaper to manufacture. WILLIAM CLARKE My composition consists of the following in- Witnesses: o gredients, combined in theproportions stated, D. DALZELL,

namely: to six ounces of sulphuric ether, four F. W. STOCKTON. 

